Rediscovering Our Place In Nature

"Perhaps the most destructive agent of our sense of interconnectedness is economics. Economists assume that when resources are exhausted, human intelligence and creativity will always enable us to exploit or create new materials. Thus, in conventional economics, the ozone layer, underground water aquifers, topsoil, or biodiversity are considered "externalities" that are irrelevant within the economic construct, even though these are all finite and crucial to human survival and health."